The writer, words unseenHe who their tongues had quickly riftWas not content their souls to driftNor let tectonic sins to shiftHis children from his mean(1 Timothy 2:1–4)

Thus from above he cameThough born in blood to us belowThe crimson flood for us to flowThat all the world might ever knowHis revelation name(Galatians 4:4–7)

Does he confuse? Not nowThough once before the Advent heDivided tongues and clouded seasTo point us towards epiphanyThe promise thus endow(Galatians 3:23–29)

Demonic ties and sin,You are exorcised by seeingHe who spoke the world to beingAnd redeemed by mercy freeingAll who live in him(1 Corinthians 15:50–57)

Incarnate word, the SonSin’s deathly reign to break fore’erBy life, then death, then life to dareTo make me his own child and heirSalvation freely won.(1 Corinthians 15:16–26)

Valerie Locklair

Valerie Locklair completed an undergraduate degree in Information Technology at Concordia University Wisconsin. She is a Fellow of the International Academy of Apologetics, Evangelism, and Human Rights in Strasbourg, France, where she also earned the Diploma of Christian Apologetics. She is the author of Called to Defend: An Apologetics Handbook and a contributing writer and speaker for 1517. Her areas of interest include apologetics for the next generation and connecting the defense of the faith to different branches of knowledge.

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